I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
I think every work is hard in different ways.
Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.
I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
If you're not a player, it's hard to get into this league. You need a small opportunity that you turn into a bigger opportunity.
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.
It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it's behind us, it's that it is not even over yet.
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
Nothing clears my head and puts things in perspective quite like a long, hard run.
When I was playing James Bond, it was the best job in the world. I mean, it was hard work, all that filming and travelling and tedium on set, but I earned a lot of money, and it was not a taxing job. I just had to say, 'Shaken, not stirred.'
It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.
In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.
If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.
When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.
I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
